. The Big Blackfoot River restoration progress report for 2002 and 2003 . Fish populations; Fishes; Fishery management; Trout fisheries; Stream ecology; Blackfoot River (Mont. ). Location (stream mile) Figure 31. CPUE for juvenile bull trout in four long-term samplina sites on the North Fork 1989-2002. Blackfoot Cooperators continued to work closely with landowners on a wide range of conservation measures involving instream flow enhancement, riparian grazing changes, and charmel re-naturalization on North Fork tributaries. Catch/100' of shoreline Fish Populations and other monito
. The Big Blackfoot River restoration progress report for 2002 and 2003 . Fish populations; Fishes; Fishery management; Trout fisheries; Stream ecology; Blackfoot River (Mont. ). Location (stream mile) Figure 31. CPUE for juvenile bull trout in four long-term samplina sites on the North Fork 1989-2002. Blackfoot Cooperators continued to work closely with landowners on a wide range of conservation measures involving instream flow enhancement, riparian grazing changes, and charmel re-naturalization on North Fork tributaries. Catch/100' of shoreline Fish Populations and other monitoring The North Fork of the Blackfoot River is a primary spawning tributary for fluvial bull trout and fluvial WSCT to headwater areas, and supports rainbow trout, brown trout and brook trout in the lower basin. Fisheries-related monitoring for 2002 and 2003 included: 1) bull trout redd surveys; 2) assessments of juvenile fish abundance; 3) whirling disease sentinel cage studies; and 4) water temperature monitoring. Bull trout redd counts in 2002 and 2003, show declining numbers of adult spawners for the third consecutive year, declining from a high of 123 in 2000, to 41 in 2003 in the long-term monitoring reach. Monitoring of juvenile bull trout abundance in four long-term monitoring sections of the North Fork, also show a sharp decline during the drought (Figure 31). For the first time in 2002, we recorded no YOY bull trout at the uppermost survey section at mile Temperature monitoring in the lower North Fork Blackfoot River (mile ) recorded a maximum summer temperature of ° F in August, ° F cooler than the ° F detected in the Blackfoot River at Raymond Bridge (mile ). Whirling disease is present the lower North Fork, and its two primary lower tributaries, Kleinschmidt Creek and Rock Creek. The disease is currently absent from upstream bull trout spawning sites in the North Fork (Results Part IV). Pearson Creek Restoration objectives: restore the
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